placed between a Negro's Legs with others to guide this small Vessel for fear he should leap over-board and swim to the Ship At a distance he haled her in English to the great surprizal of those within her the Negro's let him stand up and show himself to the Captain to whom he gave an Account hoâ—… four were left there and he only remained alive It was some time before they bargained though the Captain was resolved not to leave him behind Several times the Negro's padled away with their Canoe resolving not to part with him but what with his intreaties and promises he perswaded them to the Ship again and at last they delivered him on board for forty five Copper and Iron Bars about the bigness of a mans Finger When he came on board his Hair was long and his Skin tawny like a Mulatto having gone naked all the time he was there and usually anointed himself with Palm-Oyl The Sea men charitably apparalel'd him and he arrived safely in England with a thankful Heart for so happy a deliverance And here I shall conclude the view of Guinea A View of St. Helena an Island in the Ethiopian Ocean in Africa Now in possession of the Honourable East-India-Company where their Ships usually refresh in their Indian Voyages With an account of the Admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales the Little Spaniard to the World in the Moon by the help of several Ganza's or Large Geese An Ingenious Fancy written by a late Learned Bishop BEfore I come to relate the Acquisitions of the English in India c. I will make a halt at St. Hellens or Hellena which is now possest by the Honourable East-India-Company It is called the Sea Inn because the English and other Nations stop there as a place for watering and refreshment in their Long Voyages to India It was formerly seized by the Dutch but retaken May 6th 1673 by Captain Munday with a Squadron of English Ships and 3 Rich Dutch East-India Ships made Prizes in the Harbor since which the Company have fortified and secured it against any future invasion of Dutch Portuguese or Spaniards It was called Santa Helena by the Portuguese who discovered it on St. Hellens Day being April 2. There is no Island in the World so far distant from the Continent or main Land as this It is about Sixteen Leagues in Compass in the Ethiopick-Sea in 16 Degrees of South Latitude about 1500 Miles from the Cape of Good Hope 360 from Angola in Africa and 510 from Brasile in America It lyes high out of the Water and surrounded on the Sea-coasts with steep Rocks having within many Cliffs Mountains and Valleys of which one is named Church-Valley where behind a small Church they climb up to the Mountains To the South is Apple-Dale so called from the abundance of Oranges Lemons and Pomegranats enough to furnish five or six Ships On the West side of the Church Ships have good Anchorage close under the Shore to prevent the Winds which blow fiercely from the adjacent high Mountains The Air seems temperate and healthful so that sick men brought ashore there in a short time recover Yet the heat in the Valleys is as intollerable as the cold upon the Mountains It commonly rains there five or six times a day so that the barenness of the Hills is not occasioned for want of Water of which it hath two or three good Springs for furnishing Ships with fresh Water The ground of its own accord brings forth wild Pease and Beans also whole Woods of Orange Lemon and Pomegranat Trees all the year long laden both with Blossoms and Fruit good Figs abundance of Ebony and Rose-trees Parsly Mustard-seed Purslain Sorrel and the like The Woods and Mountains are full of Goats large Rams and wild Swine but difficult to be taken When the Portuguese discovered it they found neither four-footed Beasts nor Fruit-trees but only fresh Water They afterward planted Fruit-trees which so increased since that all the Valleys stand full of them Partridges Pigeons Moor-hens and Peacocks breed here numerously whereof a good Marksman may soon provide a Dinner for his Friends On the Cliff-Islands on the South are thousands of grey and black Mews or Sea-Pies and white and coloured Birds some with long others with short Necks who lay their Eggs on the Rocks and suffer themselves to be taken with the Hand gazeing at their Surprizers till they are knocked on the Head with sticks From the Salt-Water 〈◊〉 against the Clâ—…s a 〈◊〉 or Scum remains in some places which the heat of the Sâ—…n so purifies that it becomes white and good Salt some of the Mountains yield Bole Armonâ—…ck and a fat Earth like Terra Lemnia The Sea will answer the pains of a patient 〈◊〉 who must use an Angle not a Net because of the foul ground and beating of the waves the chief are Mackrâ—… Roach â—…p but differing in colour from those among us Eâ—…s as big as a mans Arm and well tasted Crabs Lobsters Oysters and Mussels as good as English IT is in this Island that the Scene of that notable fancy called The Man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither by 〈◊〉 Gonsales is lay'd written by a Learned Bishop saith the ingenious Bishop Wilkins who calls it a pleasant and well contrived fancy in his own Book intitaled A Discourse of the New World tending to prove that it is possible there may be another habitable World in the Moon Wherein among other curious arguments he affirms that this hath been the direct opinion of divers ancient and some Modern Mathematicians and may probably be deduced from the Tenents of others neither does it contradict any Principle of reason nor Faith And that as their World is our Moon so our World is theirs Now this small Tract having so worthy a Person to vouch for it and many of our English Historians having published for Truth what is almost as improbable as this as Sr. Iohn Mandavil in his Travels and others and this having what they are utterly destitute of that is Invention mixed with Judgment and was judged worthy to be Licensed 50 years ago and not since reprinted whereby it would be utterly lost I have thought fit to republish the Substance thereof wherein the Author says he does not design to discourse his Readers into a belief of each particular circumstance but expects that his new discovery of a New World may find little better entertainment than Columbus had in his first discovery of America though yet that pâ—…r espial betrayed so much knowledge as hath since increast to vast Improvements and the â—…en Unknown is now found to be of as large extent as all the other known World That there should be Antipodes was once thought as great a Paradox as now that the Moon should be habitable But the knowledge of it may be reserved for this our discovering Age wherein our Virtuosi can by their Telescopes gaze the Sun into Spots and dâ—…ry Mountains in the
to warm it â—…otwithstanding the Air â—…as very câ—…m and moderâ—… but when the Sun was set it begaâ—… to blow with such violence and grew so cold that taking up our lodging among the hollow â—…ks we were necessitated to keep Fires in the mouâ—… of them all night About four in the morning wâ—… began to 〈◊〉 again and being come another â—…ile up one of our Company fail'd and was ablâ—… to proceed no further Here began the black Rocâ—… thâ—… 〈◊〉 of us pursued our Journey tiâ—…â—…e came to the Sâ—… Loaf where we began to travel again in a white Sand being fitted with Shoes whose single Soles are made a Finger broader than the upper Leathers to encounter this difficult passage Having ascended as far as the black Rocks which lay all flâ—…t like a plain Floor we climbed within a mile of the very Top of the Pico and at last we attained the Summit where we found no such smoak as appeared a little below but a continual perspiration of a hot and sulphurous vapour that made our Faces extreamly sore all this way we found no considerable alteration of the Air and very little Wind but on the Top it was so impetuous that we had much ado to stand against it whilst we drank K Charles II. Health and fired each of us a Gun Here also we took our Dinner but found that our strong Waters had lost their vertue and were almost insipid while our Wine was more Brisk and Spirituous than before The Top on which we stood being not above a yard broad is the Brink of a Pit called the Caldera which we judged to be a Musket-shot over and near sourscore yards deep in form of a Cone hollow within like a Kettle and covered over with small loose stones mixed with Sulphur and Sand from amâ—…ng which issued divers Spiracles of Smoak and Heat which being stirred with any thing puffs and makes a noise and is so offensive that we were even suffocated with the sudden rising of Vapors upon removing one of these Stones which were so hot as not easily to be handled We descended not above four or five yards into the Caldera or Caldron because of the Slippeâ—…inefs under foot and the difficulty but some have adventured to the bottom Other matters obserâ—…able we discovered none besides a clear sort of Sulphur which lay like Salt upon the Stones From this renowned Pico we could see the Grand Canaâ—…ies fourteen Leagues distant Palma eighteen and 〈◊〉 seven which interval of Sea seemed not much wider than the Thames about London We discerned also the Herro being distant about twenty Leagues and so to the utmost limits of the Sea much farther As soon as the Sun appeared the shadow of the Pico seem'd to cover not only the whole Island and the Grand Canaries but the Sea to the very Horizon where the Top of the Sugar-Loaf or Pico visibly appeared to turn up and cast its shade into the Air it self at which we were much surprized But the Sun was not far ascended when the Clouds began to rise so fast as intercepted our Prospect both of the Sea and the whole Island except the Tops only of the Subjâ—…cent Mountains which seemed to pierce them through whether these Clouds do ever sâ—…rmount the Pico we cannot say but to such as are far below they seem sometimes to hang above it or rather wrap themselves about it constantly when the West Winds blow this they calâ—… the Cap and is an infallâ—…le prognostick of ensuing Storms One of our Company who made this Journey again two years after arriving at the Top of the Pico beâ—…e day and creeping under a great stone to Shrowd himself from the cold Air after a little space found himself all wet and perceived it to come from a perpetual trickling of the Water from the Rocks above him Many excellent and exuberant Springs we sound issuing from the Tops of most of the other mountains gushing out in great Spouts almost as far as the huge Pine-tree we mentioned beâ—…ore Having stay'd a while at the Top we aâ—…l desâ—…nded the Sâ—…ndy way till we came to the foot of the Sugar-Loaf which being sâ—…eep even almost to a perpendicular we soon passed and here we met with a Cave about ten yards deep and fiftâ—…en broad being in shape like an Oven or Cupola having a hole at the Top near eight yards over This we descended by a Rope that our Servants held fast on the Top while with the other end being fastned about our middles we swung our selves till being over a Bank of Snow we slid down lighting upon it we were forced to swing thus in the descent because in the midst of the bottom of this Cave opposite to the overtâ—…re at the Top is a round pit of Water like a Well the surface whereof is about a yard lower but as wide as the Mouth at Top and about six Fathom deep we supposed this Water was not a Spring bâ—…t dissolved Snow blown in or Water trickling through the Rocks about the sides of the Grott for some height there is Ice and Isicles hanging down to the Snow But being quickly weary of this excessive cold place and drawn up again we continued our descent from the Mountains by the same Passage we went up the day before and so about five in the Evening arrived at Oratava from whence we set forth our faces were so red and sore that to cool them we were forced to wash and bath them in Whites of Eggs The whole height of the Pics in perpendicular is vulgarly esteemed to be two miles and an 〈◊〉 No Trees Herbs nor Shrubs did we find in all the Passage but Pines and among the whiter 〈◊〉 a kind of Broom being a bushy Plant It is the opinion of some ingenious Persons who have lived twenty years upon the place that the whole Island being a Soil mightily impregnated with Brimstone did in former times take fire and blow up all or near all at the same time and that many Mountains of hâ—…ge Stones calcined and burnt which appear all over this Island especially in the South-West part oâ—… it were cast up and raised out of the Bowels of the Earth at the time of that general 〈◊〉 and that the greatest quanâ—…ty of this Sulphur lying about the center of the â—…â—…land raised up the Pico to that height at which it now is seen which appears by the scituâ—…tion of those Rocks that lye three or four Mile round the bottom of the Pico and in such order one above another almost to the Sugar loaf as it is called as if the whole ground swelâ—…ing and rising up together by the asceâ—…sion of the Brimstone the Torrents and Rivers of it did with a sudden eruption Roul and Tumble them down from the rest of the Rocks especially to the South-West where from the Top of the Pico to the Sea coast lye huge heaps of these burnt Rocks one under another and there still remain the very
of their strong Liquors for they lay up but little II. Sierra Leona THis Fort is in Bence Island and was likewise demolished by the French in the late War It is also rebuilding and will be secured by Sixteen Guns and Thirty Europeans besides Mulatto's and Blacks An Englishman dwelt a long time in one of the Isles having a fine House and was well beloved and protected by the Kings of that Countrey In the first War with Holland 1666. our Author being aboard a Dutch Man of War this English Factor writ to them divers times to come and Trade with them and told him he might do it with safety and upon Parole the Englishman called Abraham came aboard them in his Shallop rowed by three Slaves accompanied by a Hollander and two others which belonged to him and was kindly treated but afterward the Captain contrary to the advice of the rest treacherously made him a Prisoner and the three Moores with him to their great surprizal And Ian. 1. 1667. their great Shallop was manned out with thirty Men and one Cannonto Besiege his House which was built of Brick and Freestone defended with four great Guns incompassed with a fine Wood of Palmtrees which supplied him with Wine On one side were about twenty Cabines for the Natives and on the other a Spring of good Water it being the most beautiful Island upon the River Being about to land they discovered 200 Moores got together about the House with Firelocks and a greater number farther up in the Woods which obliged the Hollanders to make a show of going up higher as being weaker and so had more occasion for the wind but the Negroes thought they had been gone to Bowre and dispatch'd a Canoe to give the King of Boulom the Alarum which was persued by the Enemy who fired into their Boat and at length took them they were two young Slaves belonging to the Portugals who lived with the English Factory but would confess nothing of their Message The English in the House observing what passed fired at them with their Cannon and three of their Bullets fell within ten paces of the Boat The Hollanders got out of the reach of their Guns and came to an Anchor to wait the Tyde About an hour after two Moores belonging to one of the Neighbour Islands made up directly to them in a Canoe and came within Pistol-shot but would not be perswaded aboard the Dutch firing on them they fled and stooping for fear of their fire seemed no higher than Catts the English in the interim played upon them though they saw they were out of their reach to shew the Natives they had undertaken their Defence and desired their Friendship The Tyde coming in the Dutch retreated to their Ship wherein they found several Moores and Portugals and among them the King of Bouloms Son called Bembo about 35 years old well proportioned and abating his Blackness a handsom Man he was a great Friend of Abrahams the English Factor and when he understood he was a Prisoner interceded for his Ransom and on Monday noon came on board again with an hundred Elephants Teeth weighing nine hundred pound and two Civet Catts alive upon the delivery whereof Abraham was dismist the Hollanders giving him a little Barrel of Strong-Waters a Roll of Tobacco a Cheese and a Salvo of three Guns III. Sherbrow THis Fort is Scituate in York River fortified with Twenty Guns and a Garrison of an Hundred and Fifty white men besides Mulatto's and Negro's The Fort consts of two Palankeys exceeding strongly built of Stone and of a great height in forme of an half Moon The Religion of the Natives if we may so call it is generally Paganism they salute the New Moon with horrible roarings and strange gestures of Adoration they offer their Sacrifices in the Woods before great hollow Trees wherein their Idols are placed yet this they do rather out of Custom than Zeal using neither Form nor Method in their Devotions every one making a God after his own fancy some seeming to incline to Mahumatism others to Iudaism and many of them are Roman Catholicks yet divers affirm that God who giveth all things and can do what he pleaseth and causes Thanders Lightning Rain and Wind is Omnipotent and needs neither praying to nor to be set forth in so mysterious a way as that of the Trinity They believe that when People die they go into another World and will have occasion for many of the same things they use here and therefore put part of their Housholdstuff into the Grave with the dead Corps and if they lose any thing imagine their Friends in the other World had need of it and have taken it away They have no Letters nor Books yet keep Tuesday for a Sabbath forbearing then their Fishing and Husbandry and the Palm Wine which is gotten that day must not be sold but is offered to the King who bestows it on his Courtiers to drink at night On this Day in the midst of the Market-place they place a Table on four Pillars about three yards high whose flat cover is made of Straw and Reeds woven together upon which they place many Straw Rings called Fetisso's or Gods and within them set Wheat Water and Oil for their God whom they imagine devours it Their Priest they call Fetissero who every Festival day placeth a Seat upon that Table and sitting thereon preacheth to the People but what his Doctrine is the Europeans cannot understand After this the Women offer him their Infants whom he sprinkles with Water wherein a live Snake swims wherewith he likewise besprinkles the Table and then uttering certain words very loud and stroking the Children with some kind of Colours as if giving them his Blessing he himself drinks of that Water the People clapping their hands and crying I ou I ou and so he dismisseth this devout Assembly Many wear such Rings next their Bodies to preserve them from the mischiefs their angry God might inflict upon them in honour of whom they daub themselves with a kind of Chalky Earth which is their Morning Mattens At their eating the first bit and the first draught is consecrated to their Fetisso wherewith they besprinkle it If Fishermen have not a good Draught they present a piece of Gold to the Priest to reconcile them to their frowning Saint who with his Wives makes a kind of Procession through the Streets smiting his Breast and clapping his Hands with a mighty noise till he comes to the Shore where they cut down boughs from certain Trees and hang them on their Necks playing on a Timbrel Then the Priest turns to his Wives and expostulates with them and throws Wheat and other things into the Sea as an Offering to appease the Fetisso's displeasure against the Fishermen When the King Sacrifices to his Fetisso he commands the Priest or Fitessero to inquire of a Tree whereunto he ascribeth Divinity what he will demand The Priest comes to the Tree and in
things by him Specified what they were I could never understand It may be you long to know what Pylonas inquired of me Why what should it be but whence I came how I arrived there what was my name and business with the like to all which I answered as near the truth as possible Being dismist I was provided with all necessaries as my heart could wish so that I seem'd to be in a Paradise the pleasures whereof did not yet so transport me but I was much concerned with the thoughts of my Wife and Children and still retaining some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I 〈◊〉 again 〈◊〉 to them I tended my Gansa's daily with much care which yet had signified little if other men had not done more than I could For now the time came when of necessity all people of our Stature and my self likewise must needs sleep thirteen or fourteen whole days together for by a secret and irresistible decree of nature when the day begins to appear and the Moon to be enlightned by the Sun Beams which is in the first Quarter of the Moon all people of our Stature inhabiting these parts fall into a dead sleep and are not possibly to be wakened till the Sun set and is withdrawn for as Owls and Bats with us cannot indure the light so at the first approach of day we begin to be amazed therewith and fall into a slumber which grows by degrees into a dead sleep till the light be gone which is in fourteen or fifteen days that is till the last Quarter During the Suns absence there is a twofold light one of the Sun which I could not endure to behold and another of the Earth Now that of the Earth was at the height for when the Moon is at the change then is the Earth a full Moon to them and as the Moon increaseth with us so the light of the Earth decreaseth with them I found the light though the Sun was absent equal to that with us in the day when the Sun is clouded but toward the quarter it dayly diminisheth yet leaving still a competent light which seems very strange though not so remarkable as what they there report that in the other Hemisphere of the Moon contrary to that I fell upon where during half the Moon they see not the Sun and the Earth never appears to them they have yet a kind of light not unlike our Moon light which it seems the neerness of the Stars and other Planets that are at a far less distance than from us affords them You must understand that of the true Lunars or Moon men there are three kinds some a little taller than we as perhaps ten or twelve Foot high these can indure the day of the Moon when the Earth shines but little but not the Beams of both and so must then be laid asleep Others are twenty Foot high or above who can suffer all the light both of the Earth and Sun There are in a certain Island the mysteries whereof are carefully concealed men whose Stature is at least twenty seven Foot high If any other come a land there in the Moons day time they instantly fall asleep This is called Insula Martini and hath a particular Governour who as they report is sixty five thousand Moons old which makes five thousand of our years his name is said to be Hirach and be in a manner commands Irdonozur himself especially in that Island out of which he never removes There is another comes often thither who they say is not above half his Age that is about thirty three thousand Moons or two thousand six hundred of our years and he orders all things through the Globe of the Moon in matters of Religion as absolutely as the Pope doth in any part of Italy I would fain have seen this man but was not permitted to come near him his name is Imozes Now let me settle my self to a long nights sleep to which end my Attendants take charge of my Birds prepare my lodging and signifie to me by signs how I must order my self It was then about the middle of September when I perceived the Air more clear than ordinary and with the increase of the light I began to feel my self first dull and then heavy to sleep though I had not been lately disturb'd of my rest At length I delivered my self into the custody of this Sister of Death whose Prisoner I was for almost a Fortnight after and then awaking it is not to be believed how brisk and vigorous I found the faculties both of my Body and Mind I then applyed my self to learning the Language which is the same throughout all the Regions of the Moon yet not so wonderful since I believe all the Earth of Moon does not amount to the fortieth part of our inhabited Earth partly because the Globe of the Moon is far less and besides the Sea or Ocean covers very nigh three parts of four whereas the Land and Sea in our World may be judged of an equal measure Their Language is very difficult since it hath no Affinity with any other I ever heard and consists not so much of Words and Letters as Tunes and strange sounds which no Letters can express for there are few words but signifie several things and are distinguished only by their Sounds which are sung as it were in uttering yea many words consist of tunes only without words By occasion whereof I find a Language may be framed and easily learned as copious as any other in the World only of Tunes which is an Experiment worth searching after Notwithstanding these difficulties within two months I attained to such knowledge therein that I understood most Questions demanded of me and with signs and words made reasonable shift to utter my mind which Pylonas having notice of he oftimes sent for me and was pleased to inform me of many things my Guardians durst not disclose though I must needs say I never found they abused me with an untruth but if I asked a question they were unwilling to resolve they would shake their heads and with a Spanish shrug divert to some other discourse After seven Months time the great Irdonozur making his Progress to a place about two hundred Leagues from the Palace of Pylonas sent for me yet would not-admit me into his presence but discourst me through a Window where I might hear him and he hear and see me at pleasure I presented him the remainder of my Jewels which he thankfully accepted saying he would requite them with gifts of a far more considerable value I stay'd there above a quarter of a Moon when I was again sent back to Pylonas for if we had stay'd a day or two longer the Sun would have overtaken us before we could have recovered our home The gifts he bestowed on me were such that a man would part with Mountains of Gold to purchase they were all Stones nine only in number of three sorts one called Poleastis another Machrus
himself being so ambitious of praise that he would hear more than he could possibly deserve yet had he not fallen into the smart hands of the Wits of those times he might have passed better On a time a Merchant who came from England met Tom. Crryat travelling toward East-India and told him that when he was in England King Iames I. inquired after him and when he had certified him of his meeting him the King replyed Is that Fool yet living our Pilgrim was much concerned because the King spake no more nor better of him saying that Kings would speak of poor men what they pleased Another time the English Ambassador gave him a Letter with a Bill to receive ten pound to the Counsul of Aleppo wherein were these words Sir when you shall hand these Letters I desire you to receive the Bearer of them Mr. Thom. Coryat with Courtesy for you shall find him a very honest poor Wretch and further I must intreat you to furnish him with ten pounds which shall be repay'd c. Our Pilgrim liked the gift well but the Language much displeased him saying That my Lord Ambassador had even spoiled his Courtesy in the carriage thereof so that if he had been a very Fool indeed he could have said very little less of him than he did to call him honest poor Wretch and to say no more of him was tâ—… say as much as nothing and his favour does rather trouble than please me when I was at Venice said he a Person of Honour wrote thus on my behalf to Sr. Hen. Wotton then Ambassador there My Lord good Wine needs no Bush neither a worthy man Letters Commendatory because whithersoever he goes he is his own Epistle this said he was some Language on my behalf At length his Letter was phrased to his mind but he never lived to receive his money A little before his death he seem'd apprehensive thereof for swounding away once upon his recovery he declared the occasion was for fear he should die in the way toward Surat whither he intended to go and be buried in obscurity and none of his Friends know what became of him he travelling now as he usually did alone Upon which the Ambassador willed him to stay longer which he thankfully refused and presently turned his face for Surat which was then about three hundred English Miles distant and lived to come safe thither where being over-kindlâ—… treated by some English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for it as soon as he heard of it and Crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack pray give me some Sack and drinking of it though not immoderately being very temperate it increased his Flux that he had then upon him which caused him in a few days after his tedious and troublesome Travels for he went most on foot to come at this place to his Iourneys end for here he overtook death Dec. 1617. and was buried at Swalley under a little Monument likt those in our Church-yards The Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in the Island of Sumatra SUmarra is accounted one of the largest Eastern Islands in length about 700 and in breadth above 200 where the English have two very considerable Factories named Achen and York Fort. York Fort. IT lyes to Leagues from the Continent of Asia Six Kings command therein the King of Acheen is best known to us They have so well defended their Island that the Europeans could never erect any Fort or Castle in it There is a Mountain that casts forth Fire like Mount Etna The Pepper here is better than that of Malabar because the Land is more moist They find Gold in Grains and in little peices after great Flouds of Water The Inland Countrey is inhabited by Barbarians who kill and eat the Bodies of their Enemies being seasoned with Pepper and Salt The City of Acheen is the best in the Island lying half a League from the Sea upon a Plain by the side of a very shallow River upon the bank thereof there is a Fortress built Our English first setled their Trade here in the reign of Q Elizabeth whose name was then famous for her expoits against the Spaniards The Q. Letters to this King were received with much Pomp the King entertained the Messenger with a Banquet presented him with a Robe and a peice of Callicoe wrought with Gold and gave his Passport for the Generals security for whom he sent six Elephants wiâ—… Drums Trumpets Streamers and many Attendants The chief Elephant was about 14 Foot high having a small Cactle like a Coach covered with Velvet on his back in the midst was a great Bason of Gold with a rich Covering of Silk wherein the Letter was put The General was mounted on another Elephant and being arrived the Dishes wherein he was treated were of Gold their Wine is of Rice wherein the King drank to the General out of his Gallery 4 Foot higher than where he fate it 〈◊〉 as strong as Aqua Vitae After the â—…ast some Young Women danced and played on the Musick the King sent a Letter and a Present to the Q. and upon parting asked if they had the Psalms of David and caused them to sing one which he and his Nobles seconded with a Psalm as he sayd for their Prosperity Another considerable English Factory was at Bantam on the Isle of Java Major tho chief City in the Island at the foot of a Mountain whence issue three Rivers two running by the Walls and the other through the City yet not deep enough to admit any Ships The Houses are very mean consisting of three chief Streets The Natives are Heathens and believe when they dye their Souls enter into some Bird Beast or Fish and so eat neither Flesh nor Fish Toward the South are many of the Turkish Religion some called â—…aquiâ—…s are desperate Vilains who having been at Mecca to visit Mahomets Tomb run through the Streets and kill all they meet with their poysoned Daggers thinking they do God and Mahomet good service and shall be saved thereby If any of these Mad men are killd their Followers bury them as Saints erecting them a Tomb which they visit and bestow Alms upon the Keeper thereof I remember saith my Author that in 1642. a Vessel of the Great Mogols returned from Mecca to Surrat with a great number of these Faquirâ—… or Derviches and one of them was no sooner landed and had said his Prayers but he took his Dagger and ran among several Dutch Marriners unlading goods upon the Shore and â—…fore they were aware this desperate Wretch had wounded 1â—… of them whereof 13 died at length the Sentinel shot him through the Body so that he fell down dead the other Faquirs and Mahometans upon the place took up the Body and buried it and in 15 days erected him a fair Monument Every year the English and Hollanders pluckt it down but when they are gone the Faquirs